CDFingers wrote: Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:19 pm I think this will be a fine way to waste a few hours next week waiting for the safe harbor day, eh. I subscribe to these folks, who have very rich videos about the wars and their history.

Foley told me, “Congress knew that what happened in 1876 was a disaster, an embarrassment, and then there were two more close elections, in 1880 and 1884, so they realized they really had to do something about it.” As a result, Congress passed the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which purported to establish a procedure for resolving disputed Presidential elections. The statute was, Foley said, “a placeholder, better than nothing, which they figured would be improved over time. But Congress has never returned to the issue, and the law has never really been tested. No one really knows what it means.”

There does seem to be general agreement on one provision of the 1887 act: the “safe harbor” clause. It provides that, if a state submits its final tally in the Presidential contest by six days before the meeting of the Electoral College, that decision is “conclusive” and thus free from legal challenge. This year, the safe-harbor deadline is December 8th; the Electoral College meets in each state capitol on December 14th.

Happy Safe Harbor Day, America.

“What federal law requires is that if a state has completed its post-election certification by Dec. 8, Congress is required to accept those results,” said Rebecca Green, an election law professor at the William & Mary law school in Williamsburg, Va.

By the end of Tuesday, every state is expected to have made its election results official, awarding 306 electoral votes to Biden and 232 to President Trump.

CDFingers wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:23 pm I've watched four of them so far. Very good details.

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